On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 17:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky > <sergey.senozhatsky.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > basically I'm talking about a bunch of 80-cols fixups. > > Please don't. > > Nobody uses a vt100 terminal any more. The 80-column wrapping is > excessive, and makes things like "grep" not work as well. > > No, we still don't want excessively long lines, but that's generally > mainly because > > (a) we don't want to have excessively _complicated_ lines > > (b) we don't want to have excessively deep indentation (so if line > length is due to 4+ levels of indentation, that's usually the primary > problem). > > (c) email quoting gets iffier and uglier, so short lines always are > preferred if possible > > but in general, aside from those concerns, a long legible line is > generally preferred over just adding line breaks for the very > _occasional_ line. > > At the 100-column mark you almost have to break, because at that point > people may start to be actually limited by their displays, but 80 > columns generally isn't it. > > In fact, I thought we already upped the check-patch limit to 100?
Nope, CodingStyle neither. Last time I tried was awhile ago.
